Re: (PM) Disconnection Problems.

Don Lashier (dl@newportnet.com)
Sat, 02 May 1998 16:45:22 -0700

On 5/2/98, at 4:33 PM, Russ Taylor wrote:
>pm-3s can lie about the Disconnect reason, but one other cause for this
>is a really annoying bug in the Windows 95 port settings buffers. Here's
>a fix for it:
>
>* Click on Start, then Settings, then Control Panels
>* Double-click modems
>* Click Properties
>* Click Connection
>* Click Port Settings
>* Move both bars all the way to the Low side
>* Click OK

Didn't know there was a bug here, but on slow machines (<p133)
I usually slide the receive buffer to 8 rather than 12. Going
too far left will really adversly affect performance because of
the extra overhead servicing the UART interrupts. Also set the
bps down to 57,600 for slower machines.

Bad settings here shouldn't cause disconnects, just pregnant
10 second pauses because of TCP timeouts caused by dropped
characters on the serial port.

Don

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